Staycity Aparthotel – Birmingham’s Newhall Square

Aparthotels provide the perfect combination between hotel services and home-style facilities. As a family, we love the freedom and flexibility they provide.

Dublin-based Staycity Group, founded in 2004, offers a range of contemporary quality accommodation that’s versatile and affordable with all the facilities needed for short and long-term stays in 7,000 apartments around Europe. Such is the company’s forward-thinking attitude, they’re aiming to operate 15,000 apartments by 2023.

Staycity offer two locations in Birmingham. We stayed at the Newhall Square property, just a ten-minute walk from the city centre’s shopping streets; there is also a late-opening convenience store next-door – handy if you plan to self-cater.

(c) Richard Webber

You can choose between studios and one or two-bedroom apartments, but all provide full self-catering facilities, dining areas, flat-screen TVs, free wifi and bookable parking. We sampled a two-bed apartment which was reasonably roomy and had a dining area, lounge seating and well-equipped kitchen.

Reception is open 24 hours a day. We found all the staff extremely friendly and courteous – which, actually, was the case with everyone we encountered during our Birmingham visit.

(c) Richard Webber

If you don’t feel like cooking your own food, there is a café on site providing light meals and breakfast. And if you have any energy left after a day sightseeing and shopping, there’s a small but well-equipped gym to burn a few more calories.

(c) Richard Webber

While we were staying, construction work was being carried out in a neighbouring property, but this was during working hours and didn’t affect our stay in any way.

We would highly recommend Staycity and hope to experience another of their properties soon.